The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
The Prophet of Islam and other Prophets
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The characters of Muhammad’s predecessors have
been presented in such a distorted way that, if
biblical statements were taken to be correct, it
would be hard to believe that they were indeed
God’s apostles. According to the picture painted in
the Bible, they were not superior models, especially
from the ethical point of view. One very important
feature of the Qur’an is that it has restored those
chapters in the lives of the past prophets, which had
been lost to the people, because they had gone
unrecorded.
Without doubt the prophets are examples of the
loftiest human character. But because of the
unscientific methods of history-writing which
prevailed in their times only events connected with
kings, royalty and generals were considered worthy
of being recorded, thus depriving posterity of
precious details of the lives of the prophets. The
Qur’an opened this closed chapter for the first time
in history.
But to what end? It might seem that a recital of the
facts relating to the life and mission of the Prophet
of Islam would have sufficed. But there was a very
